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#4231830 - 02/21/16 02:59 PM Is it Possible ?  
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Hi guys,

I had a thought (happens now and again...)

Would it be possible to mod EECH so that you could have the front and side views on separate monitors with a triple head graphics card ?

I think the immersion in something like that would be fantastic.

Andy


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#4232072 - 02/22/16 07:43 AM Re: Is it Possible ? [Re: AndyB]  
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1.16.0 works with SoftTH, if you're talking about that.

#4232092 - 02/22/16 11:21 AM Re: Is it Possible ? [Re: AndyB]  
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Hi Firebird,

That looks pretty good.

Would it show left, right and front views simultaneously on three different monitors, or is it just the front view stretched over the three ?

Andy


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#4232098 - 02/22/16 11:51 AM Re: Is it Possible ? [Re: AndyB]  
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Only front one only. Even if the resolution is (1920+1920+1920)x1080, the pixel is still square.
Thanks to vFOV logic, there's no unexpected zooming in/out.

Or you're talking about completely different rendering, not linked to the forward field of view? Like forward uses different FOVs, and "left" and "right" are strictly "to the left" and "to the right", and there's a possible gap between "left" and "front" as well as between "right" and "front"? I remember 1993 year DOOM had "-left" and "-right" switches allowing to use three computers to render left, front and right views.

If the latter, you want to use additional monitors as side windows for your cockpit? Well, it's an interesting feature you're asking for.
Well, the simple way to do that is just repeat each rendering command (with different camera transformation matrix settings) for each of rendering targets. And there're some minor problems, like putting night goggles ellipse on the resulted scene, or text messages. But yes, it's solvable.

Please provide more details about how you see the feature, connected with questions of changeable FOV and moving game head. Couple of "top-down" field of view drawings may help.

#4232131 - 02/22/16 01:49 PM Re: Is it Possible ? [Re: AndyB]  
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Hi Firebird,

I was thinking along the lines of Microsoft Flight Simulator where you can "Undock" a window view and drag it on to another monitor.

I'm still at the thinking stage, but it would be nice to have a monitor on the left side of the pit showing the left view from the cockpit in the game and another on the right side of the cockpit showing the right view from the cockpit in the game.

I hadn't thought of the problem with the night vision or text messages.

I'll try and draw something up and post it.

Cheers,

Andy


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